Re: searching using indexes 8.3

LARC/J.L.Shipman/jshipman wrote:
>  EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT * FROM itemsbyauthor;
>                                                     QUERY PLAN
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>  Seq Scan on itemsbyauthor  (cost=0.00..971.34 rows=53634 width=34)
> (actual time=0.029..25.831 rows=53634 loops=1)
>  Total runtime: 34.851 ms
> (2 rows)
>
>
> I have an index for the table, but it is not being utilized.  Why is
> this?  How do I get the index to be used?

An index to fetch all the rows from a table? How would that help?

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   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd